The number of active COVID-19 cases in Chatham-Kent keeps rising.
On Monday, the local public health unit reported 21 new cases and 11 resolved cases for a total of 71 active cases.
The three outbreaks at Copper Terrace long-term care home in Chatham and the Chatham hospital continue as well. Lab services now has four cases -- up from three previously -- while the dialysis unit continues to have two. Copper Terrace still has just one case -- a staff member who tested positive for the virus.
Public health officials in Chatham-Kent are also reporting almost 14,000 COVID-19 vaccines have been put into arms across the municipality. Jeff Moco, with Chatham-Kent Public Health Communications, said the mass vaccination clinic at the John D. Bradley Centre in Chatham, which is temporarily closed due to a lack of vaccine doses, will reopen on Tuesday after another shipment of vaccines arrived on Monday. Moco confirmed on Monday afternoon the vaccine arrived and the mass clinic will be open on Tuesday.
Moco also said the AstraZeneca vaccine, which will be used in community pharmacies and is already being administered in nearby Windsor-Essex, has not yet arrived in Chatham-Kent.
Chatham-Kent has had nine deaths linked to COVID-19 since the pandemic was declared a year ago. The first confirmed COVID-19 case in Chatham-Kent was reported on March 18, 2020 after a 52-year-old local man returned from a Caribbean cruise. The man was immediately isolated and later recovered.
There have been a total of 1,438 cases reported in Chatham-Kent since the start of the pandemic.
Chatham-Kent remains in the Orange-Restrict level of the provincial health and safety measures and restrictions.